Pumping Iron to Stay Young

The difference between living independently and needing skilled nursing care as you age can depend in large part on your muscle mass and strength.

by Julie Turner

Senior Neighborhoods Feel Like Home

As an architect and principal of Perkins Eastman, an international planning, design, and consulting firm, Leslie G. Moldow understands how to create communities — often before residents ever live there.

by Julie Turner

Local Planner: Kitchens in the Vineyards Home & Garden Tour

The popular Kitchens in the Vineyards home and garden tour is back!

by Jerry Mulenburg

PVE Votes AFJROTC

On a trip to visit the Fairfield High School Air Force Junior ROTC program in January, student cadets decked out in crisp uniforms and a professional demeanor greeted four of us from PVE.

by Bruce Bartels

Time Capsule Planted

A small group of residents and team members were on hand for the burying of our 2017 20th anniversary time capsule.

by Tom McKinney

A Lifelong Dodger Fan

"I have been a Dodger fan since I was eight or nine years old. I lived in a small town in north Georgia and I did not have a radio."

by Shirley Arnold

Wreaths Across America

"Having visited our son’s resting place at Christmas for the past two years, impressed by the sight of thousands of identical wreaths at each marker, we wondered who did it and how that was done so beautifully. Now we would find out and take part."

Paradise Valley Estates, founded in 1997, is a Northern California Life Plan Community or continuing care retirement community offering retirement or residential living in the new Ridge expansion, Quail Creek assisted living, Deer Creek memory care and Laurel Creek skilled nursing in a gated community in Fairfield, California near Napa Valley and San Francisco.